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Could not write lines to file FileListAbsolute.txt. Access to the path is denied.

March 16th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Team Foundation Build (TF Build), Team Foundation Version Control

You receive the following error message:

C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0\Microsoft.Common.targets(3246,9): error MSB3491: Could not write lines to file "obj\Release\abc.Common.vbproj.FileListAbsolute.txt". Access to the path ‘c:\TFS Builds\Sources\abc\obj\Release\abc.Common.vbproj.FileListAbsolute.txt’ is denied.

Possible Cause:

Have you checked in the "obj" and "bin" folders?

To resolve this issue:

  1. Delete the "obj" and "bin" folder in source control.
    (usually those are not checked in)
  2. Delete the "obj" and "bin" folders on your hard disk.
    (they will be re-created during build)

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4 Comments so far ↓

  • Lucky // Apr 1, 2011 at 01:01

    Thanks …
    Nice info

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  • Joe // May 10, 2011 at 12:17

    I’ve found the reason for this particular error (when building in VS2008 after getting a project from TFS) is because, for whatever reason, a duplicate of files are in the debug folder (ie, duplicate of “vbproj.FileListAbsolute.txt” and “vbproj.GenerateResource.Cache”). Renaming or deleting those two duplicated files gets rid of the error.

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  • Howie // May 10, 2011 at 12:17

    You need to delete the bin and obj folders from within Visual Studio.

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  • bhupal // Jul 12, 2011 at 07:39

    thanks it is working peroperly with ur suggestion

    and also we can achieve this by removing read only permission to that FileListAbsolute.txt files

    Reply

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